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I understand that WordPress will only allow me to change the font in my posts if I choose to type in HTML or buy a CSS license every year and learn it and use it. Hey, WordPress! some people don’t want to bother with that! Maybe you already knew that.
We can change the font color, make it bold, italic, strikethrough, underline, etc. But we can’t change the size? what a bunch of BS. If I wanted to sit around and write code, then I wouldn’t have signed up for this. WYSIWYG what you see is what you get. It has been the standard in text editing for about 20 years.
I should have listened to my friends and gone with Blogspot immediately. see ya.
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What’s important to know is
(1) We can all change the size of the font we are viewing on any web page in our browsers using keyboard shortcuts. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/19/how-to-change-font-text-size-in-your-browser/(2) Regardless of which fonts you may wish to choose to resize or jazz up your blog with your own browser and your visitors’ browsers can only use the fonts installed in the same computer.
If a reader does not have a specific font installed on his / her computer, then the browser will determine which font is displayed. There are a very limited number of fonts (in English/Western languages) which are common for most operating systems/computers/browsers. Obviously not every visitor to your blog will have the same fonts installed in their computers, so you can immediately see that problems will arise unless you choose to use common fonts. Read more > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/02/04/changing-fonts-in-wordpress-com-blogs/
(3) Screen resolution sizes also vary and these days our readers may be viewing our blogs on desk tops macs or PCs or on iphones etc. and the way our blogs display in each of them varies.
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Change font in header image
If you have a theme with the customizable header option, you can change your customizable header on your wordpress.COM at any time, and use a free font or one you purchase of your own choice to place your blog title and tagline on the image.Changing font style on posts or pages either post by post or page by page
We wordpress.com users can change font styles and colors on our posts and pages, a post and a page at a time. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/Changing font style and color throughout the whole blog
(1) Take note that wordpress.com blogs have the otion of using TypeKit fonts.
Appearance > TypeKit fonts(2) We cannot access the templates in our wordpress.com blogs and edit the underlying php and html as we are all blogging on a wordpress mutliuser blogging platform and all blogs with the same theme are sharing the same templates. However, if we choose to pay for a CSS upgrade and undertake CSS editing then we can change font styles and colors throughout the entire blog. This upgrade is NOT recommended to those who do not have CSS editing experience as there is no Staff support.
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thanks for the thoughtful replies. I fail to see why I cannot simply set all my posts to be in Times New Roman size #12 or maybe even #14. I’m not looking for anything special, just the typical fonts that have been used by typesetters for about 100+ years.
Would using TypeKit fonts allow this? If so, why is it so difficult for everybody? I’ll take a look.
I noticed that a large number of questions seem to revolve around fonts. Maybe something could be done at WP headquarters… It might save some people time writing questions and answers.
PS, I liked your replies. But I’m not so sure about this one: (2) We cannot access the templates in our wordpress.com blogs and edit the underlying php and html as we are all blogging on a wordpress mutliuser blogging platform and all blogs with the same theme are sharing the same templates —how can I change the font color, underline, etc, but not the font size? Is that technically impossible, or just a money maker for WP when they ask everybody to buy CSS?
cheers
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how can I change the font color, underline, etc, but not the font size?
Please read what I typed above. I provided 3 different ways to change the font size aside from using your browser. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/font-size-13?replies=5#post-432959
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When you combine the information you received when reading the sticky post at the head of the forum titled Please read me first before posting https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
with this entry from the front page of support documentation
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
I think you you will begin to understand free standing software and multiuser software are very different.I repeat that the underlying templates containing the PHP and HTML for the themes here are all shared by the people who are using the same theme on this multiuser blogging platform. If just one of us could access to those files and edit them then every other user with the same them would see the same change on their blogs too.
Therefore what’s left
(1) coding in the fonts styles, colors and sizes on each post and page as I described above
(2) TypeFont Kits
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thanks again. I did read what you typed above, and will try the Typekit fonts for the post font sizes. The second and third options: HTML and CSS, just don’t sound like what I was looking for in a beginner blog. Some folks likr to write code, then there is the rest of the population that just wants wysiwyg.
And I re-read what you typed above too:. “We cannot access the templates in our wordpress.com blogs and edit the underlying php and html as we are all blogging on a wordpress mutliuser blogging platform and all blogs with the same theme are sharing the same templates”
Is that really true? It seems that we can access the templates as much as we want to change text to be bold, underlined, etc., just not the SIZE. For that, we are stuck with whatever font size the template designer chose to use.
Again, I’m not sure why this needs to be such an issue for so many WP users and the nice folks like yourself that need to respond over and over to the same request to change a font size in WP blog posts. It must be cost effective to keep it this way.
have a nice night.
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And I re-read what you typed above too:. “We cannot access the templates in our wordpress.com blogs and edit the underlying php and html as we are all blogging on a wordpress mutliuser blogging platform and all blogs with the same theme are sharing the same templates”
Is that really true?
Yes!
What you can do inside the editor to create italics, bold lettering, etc.. has sweet muck all to do with the editing of the underlying templates. You are not accessing the templates to do that or anything else on your blog. The template provides the structure and functionality.
Frankly I don’t believe this is an issue for the millions of happy wordpress.com bloggers . After all is said and done they have not deleted their blogs and then posted rants on the forum.
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I guess there is a disconnect here between your writing and my understanding. I thought that you claimed that we can’t change font sizes because of the “We cannot access the templates …..” My bad. In retrospect, you were probably referring to the type of font, not the size.
So there must be some other reason that we click a button to change the italics, but can’t click a similar button change the font sizes.
Whatever that reason is that WP doesn’t want to add a button to +1 or -1 the font size, I’m sure that they have thought it through.
thanks again for your help.
and I’m sorry for my rant taking up your time. I don’t know if this thing happened with MS before they finally put a +1 font size button into Word and Excel and ppt, etc. back in 1986 or 88 or whatever.PS, I still like WP’s layout better than blogspot. But BS does have a pretty simple method for input… ;)
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